While Microsoft is making it difficult to run modern Windows on old hardware, the backward compatibility story of the software side can be a bit different as a fun experiment shows. Whether you like ...

Leigh looks over at fellow consultant Pete M., “if this is true, buddy, we’re going to be RICH! RICH beyond our wildest dreams…” Fake Steve, in a recent story, referred to an article by Dev Corvin, ...

Last month, we reported on an interesting experiment which demonstrated the excellent backward compatibility of Windows with the help of Office. A similar experiment was done by a YouTuber MattKC but ...

One of the banes of my existence is maintaining backward compatibility to versions of Windows from 15 years ago while supporting new features of Windows Vista. It's quite a juggling act. I use three ...

There's been a lot of chatter lately about how Microsoft needs to start over with Windows. Many point to the (NT) code base's 16-year history and how the need to maintain backward compatibility is ...